I stumbled across the top 1,000 titles held by OCLC member libraries in a item posted yesterday in the Comics Reporter. The author of the post was bemoaning the high ranking held by Garfield, (#15!), as possibly the comic with the widest distribution in libraries.

The first few hundred titles in the OCLC list are mainly titles we might associate with classic canonical literature, with some classic children’s lit thrown into the mix. These would be books held widely in both public and academic libraries, I suppose. Is there anything on this list that does surprise you? Did you expect popular culture items to rank higher on the list? And why did Garfield catapult to the top? Weirdness.

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Library Topics: academic libraries, canonical literature, Mother, mother goose, oclc member libraries, weirdness

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